Mission and Vision

Our mission is bold, uncompromising, and rooted in the sacredness of life: to end the death penalty—everywhere and forever. We are a movement of conscience, fueled by the conviction that a just society does not kill to show that killing is wrong. We reject a system built on vengeance, and we rise in the name of compassion, mercy, and the inviolable dignity of every human being.

We envision a world where no government claims the authority to extinguish a life, no courtroom becomes a stage for irreversible cruelty, and no executioner bears the unbearable weight of state-sanctioned death. In this world we seek to build, justice does not destroy—it heals. It restores. It binds up the brokenhearted, affirms the humanity of the condemned, and honors the pain of the victims without compounding it through further violence.

The death penalty is not justice—it is an abandonment of our deepest moral values. It is the ultimate expression of despair, cynicism, and dehumanization. But we choose hope. We choose mercy. We choose a justice system that protects the public without shedding blood. We believe that no person is beyond redemption, that no life is expendable, and that the image of God (tzelem Elohim) shines, however dimly, even in the darkest of places.

We fight for a future where reconciliation replaces retribution, where communities respond to violence not with state killing but with prevention, support, and truth-telling. We fight for a future in which survivors of crime are heard, supported, and embraced—not used as justification for further harm. We fight for a world where justice no longer wears the mask of death.

This is our call: to dismantle the machinery of death, to lift up the voices of the condemned and the exonerated, to honor the courage of victims' families who choose love over hatred, and to join hands with people of every faith and none who believe in the transforming power of mercy.

We dream of a day when no death row exists, when no child grows up in the shadow of an impending execution, and when our laws reflect the deepest truths of our shared humanity. That day is coming. It must.

We will not stop until the death penalty is abolished in every state, in every nation, for all time. This is our moral imperative. This is our sacred work.